“Maybe after the engine gets good and warmed up it can meet the standards without whatever they’re doing in the first 20 minutes.”
The fact that they didn’t is what started this investigation into FC.
I didn't see this in the article. What I did see makes the whole thing very dubious:
The matter first came to German authorities attention when an environmental lobbying group blamed Fiat’s 500 X diesel crossovers had NOx emissions well beyond the legal limits.